I often wonder where the bravery and spirit of state's, and especially individuals' stand in regard to their actual rights.  It seems, that I'm not the only one who would like to see a re-enabling of our rights as states and individuals and a removal of the Federal Government's jack boot on backs.  The feds have done everything from remove opportunities to build out infrastructure at state cost, expand passenger rail service, encourage higher standard for automobile exhaust, and more.

Yeah, that's right, the Federal Government.

While reading this article I stumbled into some events I did not know of and found it almost shocking in a refreshing sense.  In the article Walter E. Williams writers, "Eight state legislatures have introduced resolutions declaring state sovereignty under the Ninth and 10th amendments to the U.S. Constitution; they include Arizona, Hawaii, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington.

There’s speculation that they will be joined by Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Nevada, Maine and Pennsylvania."

Really?

Seriously?

Americans are growing a set again and stepping up to bat for their rights?!  It can't be!  I'm impressed.  As one state proudly proclaims in its motto, "Life free or die!", New Hampshire is staying true to its motto and constitution as was written long ago in that state, "That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General (federal) Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force."

These types of acts, we need, desperately in this country now.  Especially in this time of weakness we need to protect and to act out in our best interests state by state, individual by individual to prevent further encroachment.

The Federal Government through blackmail, mostly by threatening to remove highway funds, has held states by the noose for so long many can't remember when states actually had access to and notions of independence.  Then of course, there is barely an individual alive today that can clearly remember liberty of the scale and expanse of the past.  In a mere decade or two, there definitely won't be a soul left.  We need to take it back so that we can have a new generation know and live in true liberty.

Of course, I am pessimistic yet hopeful.  Maybe we can regain ourselves and our choices for ourselves again.

Maybe.